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History

The Commonwealth Educational Commission: a new approach to teachers and education

Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and Polish Commonwealth in 1773. Jesuits financed a number of schools in Lithuania and Poland, including the Academy of Vilnius. The state faced the tasks of making use of the huge wealth of the Order and of finding new supervisors of the schools or, in other words, of solving problems in the area of education. […]

Verkhovna Rada
Foreign affairs

Lithuanians’ ‘Marshall plan for Ukraine’ initiative making its way to Europe

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, and his Ukrainian counterpart discussed a proposed plan for EU financial aid for Ukraine, dubbed as “the new Marshall plan”, as they met in Kiev on Thursday. […]

FLTR Goda Raibytė, Professor Juozas Vaitkus and Steven Goldfarb a CERN scientist
Society

Lithuanian robot to address Future of Life Seminar

Nao, a friendly looking robot from Lithuania’s Robotikos Akademija, will be the guest of honour at the Future of Life Seminar on the occasion of the European Business Network 10th anniversary event. The seminar will take place in Vilnius’ Kempinski Hotel on 21 September. In addition to the robot, some of Lithuania’s leading scientist will explain how progress in science and technology will affect our daily lives in the near future. […]

Ministry of Finance
Politics

Anti-corruption agency takes documents from Finance Ministry

Officials from the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service, or STT, on Wednesday visited the Finance Ministry in Vilnius and took certain documents, the finance minister’s spokeswoman confirmed to BNS on Thursday. […]

Kaunas Jesuit Church
History

Alfonso Salmerón, the First Jesuit in Vilnius

The Spaniard Alfonso Salmerón (1515–1585) was one of the closest companions of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, and he played an active role in the affairs of the order in its early life in Paris and later in Italy. Salmerón and Loyola met at the Sorbonne in 1536, where they were studying theology. Not long afterwards, with a few other friends, they founded the Society of Jesus. […]

Saulius Skvernelis, Gabrielius Landsbergis
Politics

PM to meet with conservatives’ leader to discuss support for govt program

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting on Thursday with Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, to discuss the opposition party’s possible support for the government’s program. […]